Sunday, November 16, 2014

Morality - Standing Before God, Revisited

I wrote a short version on this topic recently, and I am not sure this is better, but it is more thorough!

It confounds me that anyone would stand up for a character,
fictitious or not, who took the general concept of the Underworld (believed in
Pagan times) and turned it into a fiery inferno called Hell where people burn
for eternity, burning these people simply because they do not in their hearts
think it is right to worship such a man/god named Jesus or the horrid god of
the Bible - again real or not.

As religious people, your faith demands you worship these examples of badness,
and in your book, people such as my wonderful mother, my gentle father and I
get to burn for eternity.You think you
are doing right by following commands and converting as many people as possible
to try to keep them from the flames of Hell.I can understand your sincerity in this.But are you really acting in a moral manner when you try to convert
people? I think not. You are too busy conforming to a sick god and
getting everyone to obey, an avoidance technique, rather than addressing and rejecting the
biblical god.

Christians often tell me they pity me because I will have to beg God for mercy
to keep out of Hell.However, you and
they miss the point.If we are punished
for our morals and conscience by Jesus and the Biblical god, and you overlook
how horrible these two characters really are because you are conditioned to
think they are wonderful and are taught you must follow rules to get the
afterlife you want, then who really has the good morals?Who stands up to injustice, real or
fabricated?Who sticks to his/her
conscience even though Hellfire is threatened?

I think the whole concept of worship is wrong.What does worshiping someone say about your own self-worth?Imagine yourself punishing your own child
because he said in good conscience he just could not worship you day and
night.Would you burn him for eternity
because he said that?

I ask that you examine this honestly and do not make excuses of “God is an
angry god too,” or “He gave you a chance.”I have heard those before and they do not excuse this God’s evil
behavior.

Let us look at what you tell me once again: “I pity you
because you will have to stand and be judged in front of God and you will be
begging for mercy.”I don’t doubt, if
your religion is true, that I may beg.I
will probably be a bit defiant at first and ask a question or two, but this
Christian god is evil and I will be very frightened and I will cry and feel so
bad that I was wrong, - not smart enough - and I might beg to be saved from the
flames and eternal burning of skin.Does
that make you feel better if you are right?If so, you miss the point that this concept of Hell is evil.Countless good people while on earth would be
begging to save themselves from punishment, and will be sent to Hell because
they did not profess love and servitude to an unlovable and unbelievable
character, or because they did not believe in worship, blind faith or
submissive slavery.It is not a matter
of whether you are right or not – it is a matter of why you worship and profess
love to these despicable two entities (Jesus and God) who are torturers.I do not think we should be commanded to
worship anything – we can be grateful and thankful without being required to
worship anyone.If you like traditions,
you can perform them because you want to – not because it is demanded.

Your excuse to brush off the torture by saying, “It is your choice – you have
free will” does not excuse the punishment.I, with this brain which cannot think differently, have no free will,
and with my upbringing, I can not excuse the concept of Hell, nor can I worship
because it would be dishonest of me. Can you see why I would not be moral if I
try to make myself believe in this God and Jesus so I can be rewarded at
death?I do not see that as moral and I
do see that as wrong.

Again, would you burn someone for eternity and think it is justified because
you are “All loving - but angry too?”Would you burn someone for eternity because “You gave him many chances”
and he didn’t change his mind?Why would
you worship someone because they commanded you to do so?Why would you worship someone who you knew
would let you watch your parents and friends burn in Hell from your view in
Heaven?That is sick beyond belief!Why would you worship someone whose morals
are less than yours?You would not do
the things your God does.

The obvious answer is that you must change your concept of God.You do try to do that by ignoring all the
evil parts of the Bible where God commands swords be driven through pregnant
women.You make excuses for Jesus when
he yells at his mother and kills a fig tree and drives pigs over a cliff and
belittles his followers and separates them from their families - and threatens
Hell.You ignore those parts or excuse
them because you want your religion to be better than it is written.

I think it is fine to make your own personal religion better than what
exists.It is all about improving as
humans on this earth.It is those who
drag the ancient religions along that hold us back as a species.If you would like to believe in a god that somehow
started everything; that is fine.If you
believe in goodness, that is fine, and that is not really religion – most of us
do believe in goodness, and it is healthy for survival anyway.If you want to be thankful, that is
fine.We all are thankful we are here
and want to appreciate each day.But do
not think your god will solve problems on earth.Just look around with honest eyes and you
know solving world problems is up to us, and doing so is part of morality.It would be great if we could solve such
problems without dividing into tribes.As long as your religion does not contradict reality – as long as it
jibes with science, it will not hold us back as progressive, good humans.I no longer personally can envision a god
like that, because a god just does not make sense with the world that I see,
but there was a time when I did believe in a sunny god, back before I
understood how the world is set up, with all its pain and misery.I will not mind if you believe, as long as
you keep your beliefs out of schools and government.

Do you fear that you will fear death without the Biblical religion?Why?You have no control over death – it happens to every creature – and you
did not ask to be born.We are just here
for the ride!Let’s make it a good
one!Ditch the Biblical god!Create your own good beliefs, or just ditch
all gods all together!

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I became an atheist thanks to YouTube! For years I hovered between having a God, being "spiritual" and being agnostic - in fact, most of my life. There was only a short period of time when I was a Jesus Freak along with my brother, but I did not fit in with his group. I attended a religious college for two years and felt like the "odd woman out" there as well. One day on the main page of AOL there was a picture of Kirk Cameron and another picture of a pretty young blond woman with curly long hair and a cute little chin. They said she got more "hits" on YouTube than Kirk did! Of course, it was Zomgitscriss! I watched her video and thought, "You know, I think like she does, but she is a lot smarter than I am!" I watched more of her videos, and she said it was just a hop, skip and jump from agnosticism to atheism. I thought, "Oh, I could never be an atheist - it's such a harsh word!" I decided to look at her favorites and saw a big guy with long hair who looked like he belonged in a motorcycle gang. I smirked and thought, "This will be good - let's see what he has to say," thinking he had to sound dumb. It turned out to be Aron Ra, and I was treated to video after video about evolution, taxonomy and phylogeny - subjects I knew nothing about! What an education! One day, I clicked on Pangeaprogress' videos. I saw his beautiful nature videos of Africa. Suddenly, a pack of lions surrounded an antelope and started eating her, slowly, starting at the hips and wherever they could bite. I was totally shocked. I had been overprotected a good share of my life, and my mother always told me that animals "always went right for the neck and the death was over in an instant." Well, it wasn't. From that moment on, I was an atheist. No God could sit by and watch such cruelty and pain and suffering and allow it to happen. No excuses. This is how YouTube converted me, and my eyes have been opened to so many new ideas thanks to the Internet!